Escape Special Characters using jQuery

jQuery

jQuery is a javascript library that is simple to use. It’s easy enough to do very advanced things. Anyone who has used jQuery knows that you can do quite a lot with selectors. One of the problems I run into often is using a selector for a DOM element that contains special characters. jQuery requires many characters to be escaped in the selector in order to function properly. The problem here is that jQuery doesn’t offer a function that will escape your selector value for you. I’ve created such a function here: